Sugarbeet News

Belle Fourche Sugar PlantSDPB Radio (blog)In 1904, Belle Fourche's founder and chief booster, Seth Bullock, boasted that a sugar beet factory would be so successful here that a weekly payroll that topped $25,000 was feasible. He put his money where his mouth was that same year: he sold part of ...

Mud bogs down harvest of a record sugar beet cropCapital PressJohn O'Connell/Capital Press Workers at Foster Farms near Aberdeen, Idaho, seek to get sugar beet harvesting equipment bogged down by mud working again. Wet weather has delayed harvest of a record crop, and has many Idaho growers worried about ...

Alta. growers see near record-setting sugar beet harvestWestern Producer (subscription)More than 200 farmers grow sugar beets in the region. Harvest began Sept. 15, which is earlier than usual, Bergen-Henengouwen said. That early harvest, referred to as the mini-harvest, allows the factory to get its slicing operations up and running.

Sugar beets – a reliable source of biofuel?County Times... chairman of the university's Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences, and colleagues Arthur Allen and Caleb Nindo are working with a consortium of private-sector partners focused on finding new sources of biofuels by planting sugar beets.

Don't be tricked into thinking organic, non-GMO treats are betterChicago TribuneMore than half the sugar produced in the U.S. is derived from the sugar beet, a vegetable grown from a genetically modified seed. The reason why sugar beet farmers use these seeds is because the crops are better for their farms; the U.S. Beet Sugar ...

Shooting past 30 tons of beetsPowell TribunePowell farmer Regan Smith (right) harvests sugar beets from a field northeast of Powell on Wednesday morning. Jess Klemm drives alongside the digger as it deposits beets into the back of the truck. Despite a soggy start to the harvest, local growers ...

Why UK sugar beet has a bright long-term futureFarmersWeeklyAs sugar beet lifting gets under way and this year's campaign begins, there's renewed optimism among beet growers and the wider industry amid signs that the crop has a long-term future. After two years of a shrinking crop area – with a 20% cut imposed ...

Why UK sugar beet has a bright long-term futureFarmersWeeklyAs sugar beet lifting gets under way and this year's campaign begins, there's renewed optimism among beet growers and the wider industry amid signs that the crop has a long-term future. After two years of a shrinking crop area – with a 20% cut imposed ...

Annual Platte County beet harvest underway - Platte County Record Times

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Annual Platte County beet harvest underwayPlatte County Record TimesA conveyer on the digger loads farm trucks with the beets and they haul to the pile grounds east of Wheatland. A huge conveyer piles the crop and they are later trucked to the Western Sugar Cooperative factory in Torrington, Wyo. where they are ...

Annual Platte County beet harvest underway - Platte County Record Times

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Annual Platte County beet harvest underwayPlatte County Record TimesDaniel Melcher's family came to Wheatland in 1963 and his son, Adam Melcher, is the third generation to raise sugarbeets here. Daniel said their harvest of 310 acres was halfway complete as of the middle of October and he is pleased with his yields.

Michigan sugar beet crop contains lowest sugar content in yearsDetroit Free PressCROSWELL, Mich. — The summer's strange weather is resulting in a sugar beet crop that is OK on tonnage but low on sugar content. Ray VanDriessche, director of community and government relations for Michigan Sugar Company in Bay City, said the ...

Michigan sugar beet crop contains lowest sugar content in yearsDetroit Free PressCROSWELL, Mich. — The summer's strange weather is resulting in a sugar beet crop that is OK on tonnage but low on sugar content. Ray VanDriessche, director of community and government relations for Michigan Sugar Company in Bay City, said the ...